Found from Nicaragua , Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela in wet montane cloud forests as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 180 to 1500 meters with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 5 coarsly ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate to broadly elliptic, subacute to obtuse leaf that is abruptly contracted below to the petiole and has the underside suffused with purple that blooms in the winter, spring or summer on a congested fascile of a few sussessively opening flowers held under the leaf at the leaf base.

Related to T acestrochila but it has narrowly ovate, apically narrowly acuminate petals and the narrowly ovate lip with the margins of the long-acuminate apex revolute.